Oral History Archive

Fred Stern

Bus driver for 35 years on the B36 route and the shuttle bus inside Sea Gate

Jeff Brooks and Monica Ghee

Jeff was given less than a year to live. Monica donated a kidney and saved his life.

Eric Sanchez

Growing up in Coney Island and Gravesend in the 1990s and 2000s

Randy Kasper

Memories of living in the newly opened Luna Park Houses in the 1960s

Orlando Mendez

Growing up in Coney Island in the 1970s and being the third generation of his family to live here today

Alison Cintorrino

Memories of growing up in Luna Park Houses in the 1960s and 1970s

Alan Kirschenbaum

Memories of growing up in Coney Island Houses in the 1950s and early '60s

Sharon Tera

Sharon Tera's family operated Ethel's Restaurant on the Boardwalk in the 1940s and '50s

Carol Barry

Memories of living in the newly opened Luna Park Houses in the 1960s

Carlos Quinones

Memories of placing the Puerto Rican flag atop the Parachute Jump and driving the Mermaid Avenue bus

Jane McNeive Ennis

Memories of Ocean Tide Baths and Coney Island

Tymell Murphy

Professional basketball player and author of a book of poems and stories who grew up in Coney Island

Mark St Leon

Australian circus historian whose family performed at Coney Island's Luna Park in the early 1900s

Maria Schwab

Growing up in Gravesend and going to Coney Island in the 1960s and living there today

Esther Delgado

Growing up in Gravesend and going to Coney Island in the 1940s and living there today

Rena Stutman Rice

Memories of growing up in Brighton Beach in the 1950s and '60s

Arlene Oken Straus

Memories of living in Luna Park Houses in the 1960s and '70s

Irina Ginzburg (Upa)

Stand-up comedian and founder of the Coney Island Comedy Festival